DUNCAN ALEXANDER CAMPBELL KILLEN
1929-2002
1929 Born in Hollywood , California ,of canadian parents.Irish origin. Mother was a film script writer for Mary Pickword.
1932 Father died.Family returned to Canada .
1932-47 Formative years (age 3-18),spent in Hamilton , Ontario , Canada .
Residences
1929-32 Hollywood , California , USA .
1932-47 Hamilton , Ontario , USA .
1945-47 Riverside , California , USA .
1947-64 Berkeley , California , USA .
1964-66 Paris , France .
1966-68 Berkeley , California , USA .
1968-87 Oxford, England.
1987-88 Saint Jeannet, France.
1988-89 Vence, France.
1990-2002 Auribeau-sur-Siagne, France.
Education
1946 Studied art at the Hamilton Art Institute, Canada .
1947 Entered University of California ,at Berkeley.Studied psychology, sociology and cultural anthropology.
1952 Received bachelor of Arts degree ( B.A) at U.C. Berkeley in sociology.
1956 Received Masters Degree (M.A) at U.C. Berkeley, in social psychology.
1964-66 Studied Surrealism in Paris , privately.
Teaching
1960-64 Part-time Instructor in creative drawing and painting at Contra Costa College near Berkeley .
1966 Lecturer at the University of California,Berkeley,Extension Division in sociology,social psychology and the Sociology of Art.
• Lecturer for the University of Maryland (Overseas Division ) in social Psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology and the sociology of art.
1969-74 Tutor (part-time) in drawings from the imagination,OxfordPolytechnique.
Exhibitions
Canada
1977 Beckett Gallery, Hamilton , Ontario . Usa 1958 Contemporary Arts ( Berkeley ) yearly until 1964.
1959 Oakland Art Museum , Oakland , California .
1960 University of California , Berkeley .
1964 Gilman Galleries, Chicago .
1987 South Warf Gallery, Nantucket Island , Mass. England
1974 Oxford Art Society yearly until 1986.
1976 Westgate Gallery, Oxford .
1977 Westgate Gallery, Oxford .
1977 Old Gaol Gallery, Abingdon.
1977 Newman Rooms, Oxford .
1978 Crane Gallery, London .
1979 Sunningwell School of Art, near Oxford yearly until 1981.
1981 Oxford Playhouse, Oxford .
1982 Borlase Gallery, Blewbury, near Oxford .
1983 Royal Society of British Water Colourists, Mall Galleries, London .
1984 Royal Academy , London (Summer exhibition).
1984 Broad canvas Gallery, Oxford .
1984 Borlase Galley, Blewbury, near Oxford .
France
1988 Galerie la Panetière , Auribeau-sur-Siagne.
1988 Chèvre d'or Galerie, Saint Paul de Vence.
1989 Forum des artistes méditerranéens, Le Château, Tourrettes-sur-Loup, near Vence.
1989 Galerie Capricorne, Valbonne, near Cannes.
1989 « Mougins Art Prestige » Courteline Galerie, Musée Municipal, Mougins.
1989 Musée municipal « Le Château », Tourrettes-sur-Loup.
1990 « Mougins Art Prestige » Courteline Galerie, Musée Municipal, Mougins.
1991 Musée Municipal, le Château, Tourrettes-sur-Loup.
1993 Musée Municipal, Auribeau sur Siagne.
1994 Gray d'Albion Galerie, Cannes.
2004 FL ARTS Galerie , Villefranche sur mer.
Tutoring
1972-84 Tutor in creative art for the University of Maryland (Extension division) in England.
1973-84 Tutor at the Sunningwell School of Art near Oxford in figure drawing,painting and drawings from the imagination.
1970-74 Tutor (part time) at the Oxford Polytechnic in the philosophy and sociology of art.
1975 Tutor for Farleigh Dickenson University (Wroxton College Extension Division in England ) in the sociology of the art and creative drawing and painting.
1989-91 Tutor (with Claude Bernier) at the Drawing and Painting Workshops in Auribeau-sur-Siagne.
Public lectures
1972 « Surrealism and the Unconscious », at Bath , England , for the Oxford Polytechnic.
1972 « Zen Buddhism and Modern Art » Oxford Polytechnic.
1977 « Fantasy in Art » Old Gaol, Abingdon , England.
1979 « Zen Buddhism and Modern Art », University of London ( Goldsmith College ).
Writings
1970 « Artistic Fantasy », and its importance, publisched by the Oxford Polytecnic, in « Snowmilk », magazine.
1971 « The Moon Tree », an essay on the symbolic in Art, a limited edition publisched by the Oxford Polytechnic.
1977 A selection of poem end drawings in the « Sunningwell Schoolof Art Poetry » booklet (limited edition).
1980 « The Imaginary window » a collection of photographs made by the autor of Parisian antique arrangements, which interpreted by him, told a poetic story.
1980 « Fantasy Painting », a manuscrit, which was a part of an art series to be publisched by Phaidon Press, Oxford.
1981 « Wisdom of the Moon Tree », a collection of aphorisms (with drawings) written by the author.
1983 « Fables for Fantastic Adults », a collection short stories, written by the author, with his water colour paintings.
1990 A series of six short stories and drawings from « Fables for Fantastic Adults » publisched in english in a French art magazine called Alias.
1991 « Surrealism » an essay for Sculptura, an Art Institute of The Cote d'Azur.
1995 « The Global Train », a collection of the authors poems and drawings.
1997 A poem in an anthropology called « Voices » publisched by Poetry Today.
Honours and distinctions
1983 Precision Video, London ,made a video, called » Painting for pleasure » by the author.
1987 Won the « Book selection of the week » from the Cannes English Book Store,after reading one of my stories from « fables For Fantastic Adults, over the English Côte d'Azur radio station, Radio Sunshine.
1989 Won the « Grand Prix de La Ville de Nice » for a painting exhibited in Tourrettes-sur Loup( Côte d'Azur ) organized by the forum des Artistes Mediterranéens.
1993 Elected a member of the Society of Authors( Britain ).
1994 A large oil landscape painting purchased by the Auribeau city hall.
Radio interviews
1984 BBC Radio Oxford ( England ).
1988 Radio Sunshine, Antibes, Côte d'Azur.
1989 Radio Riviera, Monte Carlo, Principauté de Monaco.
Memberships
1953 American Sociological Society.
1954 Pacific Sociological Society.
1974 Oxford Art Society.
1989 Forum des artistes Méditerranéens (FAM).
1990 Association des artistes de Mougins (ASAM).
1993 The Poetry Society ( Britain ).
1993 The Society of authors ( Britain ). General Artistic activities
1965 Made a collection of artistic photographs of antique arrangements in Paris .
1970 Assembled a collection of artistic photographs of fairs in Xwales and Oxford .
1973 Founded the Sunnningwell School of Art ,near oxford, and was its Director until where in it had 200 students.
1989 Wrote lyrics for five pop songs 5melody and music by Janet Holroyd). |
